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Apr 15, 2024 · By David McKenna. BBC News. Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an ancient henge near the ruins of a medieval abbey in Lincolnshire. Material including pottery, two bone combs and...
May 1, 2024 · He was also the greatest benefactor of Æthelwold's Abingdon Abbey. Reformed Benedictine monasteries were mainly confined to Wessex and some areas of Mercia, and they were greatly outnumbered by the many secular minsters, although the reformed monasteries were much wealthier.
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Apr 27, 2024 · By Côme Besse – May 16, 2023 — 3 minutes read. The beautiful Engelszell Abbey is located in Austria, on the banks of the Danube. This community of Trappist monks lives in silence to the rhythm of work and prayer. The community has only recently made a name for itself in the small circle of abbeys producing authentic Trappist beers.
5 days ago · Updated: 1:21, 9 May 2024. TRIBUTES have been paid to an "amazing" and "special" woman who died in a car crash. Abbey Elgey, 24, died after a white BMW and a black Audi collided in North ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Gregorian Reform. Investiture Controversy. William Of Hirsau (born, Bavaria—died July 2, 1091, Württemberg, Duchy of Swabia) was a German cleric, Benedictine abbot, and monastic reformer, the principal German advocate of Pope Gregory VII’s clerical reforms, which sought to eliminate clerical corruption and free ecclesiastical offices from ...
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6 days ago · Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132, the first outpost of the Cistercian order in the north of England. The White Monks (so-called because of the color of their robes) spread rapidly after their formation in France, and Rievaulx was intended to be a mission center from which the Cistercians could colonize the north and Scotland. 8.
6 days ago · House of Wittelsbach The "strikingly simple and beautiful" arms of Wittelsbach were taken from the arms of the counts of Bogen, who became extinct in 1242. When Louis I married Ludmilla, the widow of Albert III, Count of Bogen , he adopted the coat of arms of the counts of Bogen together with their land, along the Danube between Regensburg and ...
